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LRB · Theo Tait · Don’t wear yum-yum yellow: Shark Attack!

Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin Duckworth, 295 pp, £18.99, January, ISBN 978 0 7156 4291 7 ‘Many scientists don’t like to talk about shark sex,’ Juliet…
AUTHOR:Theo Tait
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3409 words)

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Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius

Evolution's It Girl: In 1993, Margie Profet received a MacArthur "Genius" grant tor her work in Evolutionary Biology. She was 34. Margie Profet was always a study in sharp contradictions.  A…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (864 words)

One Woman's Ordeal with Texas' New Sonogram Law

Halfway through my pregnancy, I learned that my baby was ill. Profoundly so. My doctor gave us the news kindly, but still, my husband and I weren’t prepared. Just a few minutes earlier,…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2210 words)
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